Karamdanda liṅga inscription of the time of Kumāragupta I.
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| Inscription ID | IN00025 |
| Title | Karamdanda Linga of the Time of Kumaragupta I |
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| Parent Object | OB00023 |
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| Author | Dániel Balogh |
| Print edition recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Edition improved by | Dániel Balogh |
| Authority for | Own research. |
| Metadata recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Language | संस्कृतम् |
| Reigning monarch | Kumāragupta I |
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| Date: | |
| Min | 436 |
| Max | 437 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 117 kārttika 10 (era: Gupta). Basis of dating: intrinsic. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 2.9 |
| Description | northern class, western Gupta with idiosyncratic m |
| Layout | |
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| Width | 44 |
| Height | 50 |
| Description | The inscription occupies five faces of the octagonal base, with the lines running contiguously across the faces. An indentation of the base below line 4 has destroyed some of the top mātrās in line 5, and the bottom has been broken off, leaving line 12 incomplete and any number of further lines lost. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First noticed in 1908 by Kunwar Kamta Prasad, Collector of Faizabad (says Bhandarkar 1981: 280 and Konow 1909-10: 70 - but neither gives any reference to a publication). Summary of contents in PRAS-N 1908: 23, 39. First edited in Bandyopadhyaya 1909: 457-459, re-edited in Konow 1909-10. See also, ARIE 1956-57: 109, no. 217, App. C; Pandey 1962: 82. |
| Add to bibliography | B. Upadhyaya, SAII. pt. II, p. 55 & Pl. |
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